晉 → 坤
Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Line 4
九四 晉如鼫鼠。貞厲。
Nine in the fourth place means: Progress like a hamster. Perseverance brings danger.
Line 6
上九 晉其角。維用伐邑。厲吉无咎。貞吝。
Nine at the top means: Making progress with the horns is permissible Only for the purpose of punishing one's own city. To be conscious of danger brings good fortune. No blame. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
百足俱行，相輔為強，三聖翼事，王室寵光。
A hundred streams flow east, none competing for first or last. They merge into a great marsh, nourishing ten thousand acres.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire rises above the earth, illuminating all directions — but this verse looks to the original text, not the rewrite. The original reads: 'A hundred feet walk together, supporting each other in strength. Three sages assist in governance, and the royal house basks in glory.' The hundred-footed centipede moves all its legs in coordination, a metaphor for collective effort. The 'three sages' likely refers to the Duke of Zhou, the Grand Duke, and the Duke of Shao, who together stabilized the early Zhou dynasty. Their coordinated support allowed King Cheng's court to flourish. From Progress to the Receptive, the transformation reveals that brilliant advance finds its fulfillment in earth's receptive capacity: true progress manifests when leadership yields to collaborative support, each sage contributing without competing.
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